Victoria Antoinette

I think 7 days is too long for the problems in this particular thread. a day would have sent a sufficient message

I like the thrust of your comments but I understand why they can’t be allowed to stand as you have written them.

I disagree that we should be calling each other “troll” or any other pejorative.

I went back and reread it. you called them a troll.

I agree with your characterization, but I expect both your comment and this to be removed because we are making a personal accusation. I know that beating around the bush would not put such a fine point on it and call out the actual users who are exhibiting the problematic behavior, but for the good of the community discourse, personal call outs need to be removed.

so while I agree with your characterization, you need to try to communicate it without publicly making personal attacks.

no. an ad hominem is attacking the person instead of the argument. regardless of the truth. poisoning the well is a great one, as it is an ad hominem that usually features true accusations which are irrelevant to the discussion. which could also be called a “red herring” (but most fallacies are doubly red herrings)

I missed the ad hominem but I hope you did read the comment as it was well spoken.

your poise and tact are legendary

use the report button instead of engaging in the toxic personal attacks

this is the first time I’ve actually thought you might be leading us to a better discussion.

if you see a bot, report it. accusing other users in the thread is just toxic.

this has nothing to do with the topic. this is indicative of an inability of unwillingness to engage in good faith

whatever that means. if they used two separate accounts you wouldn’t even know. how about you just address or ignore each comment in it’s merits, and stop trying to control other people.

can you try to only reply to a comment once?

if they have two distinct responses, why shouldn’t they leave two distinct comments?

!modabuse

All she can do is pull votes from Democrats handing the election to Trump.

the ambiguity of this syntax is fun! the democrats are handing the election to trump, and jill stein is trying to pull votes from them!

Is she viable with our current first-past-the-post system

viability is a myth invented by the media. hilary was viable. john kerry.

no, she’s going to be on the ballot whether we have ranked choice or no.

that isn’t part of how mussolini defined it.

The president enjoys no authority to assassinate anyone

obama thanks you for not remembering that time he assassinated a 16 year old american citizen.